NYFF11: Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets”

On Tuesday we will continue our weekly celebration of "50 Years of the New York Film Festival" with a screening of Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, originally shown at the 11th NYFF in 1973, featuring Scorsese in person for a post-screening Q&A!

Though it seems difficult to imagine, there was a time before Martin Scorsese was the cinematic powerhouse we know him as today. Mean Streets was the film that first put Scorsese on the radar of critics and viewers. It served as an introduction to the director's trademark style, his focus on gritty New York life, a great rock soundtrack, and even performances by Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, who would go on to collaborate with Scorsese in numerous classics in the following decades. If you are a fan of Scorsese's gangster films, you owe it to yourself to see where the journey began.

As of now, this screening is standby only. A line will form at the Walter Reade box office prior to the show. Tickets may become available to the standby line on a first-come, first-served basis.

Get a double dose of German filmmaking when "50 Years of the New York Film Festival" returns on Tuesday, January 13 with Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Ali (Fear Eats the Soul) and Werner Herzog's The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser from the 12th and 13th editions of the festival in 1974 and 1975, respectively.

Here is a list of all the films that played the 11th New York Film Festival in 1973:Day For Night (La nuit Américaine)
François Truffaut, France/ Italy,1973
Shown with Pierre, Dominique Cheminal, France

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